St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-16

BIDS have been invited by the Secretary
of the Navy for the construction OF three
new cruisers and two new gunboats.
LORD LANSDOWNE'S tenants refuse the
new terms of rent settlement, and evlc-
tions are ordered to proceed.
THE will of Mary B. Pelton, the sister of
the late Samuel }. Tilden, was admitted
to probate on the Gth. The teStatrlx be-
queaths all her property to her grand
daughter. Laura A. PeltoI, wife of VIM.
A. Hazlrd.
FIRE in the barracks at Aliershot. En-
gland, on the 9th, destroyed fully seven
eighths of the buildings and other proper
ty, and SO seriously damaged what re-
mains of them unconsumed as to render
them useless.
FORESTER, who is supposed to be the
finest st. Bernard dog in the world, mas
just been imported by Dr.. Foster, of New
York. He cost 800 in the Turin mount.
aims. and is the son of ST. Elmo, famous
St. Bernard, well known to dog fancier5
all over the mountains.
AN extensive fire occurred on the 9th in
the Swiss village of Buchol in the canton
of Saint Gall. Sixty houses were burned,
and many cattle persisted in the flames.
News from Cape Breton is that there
are slight hopes that the steamer Eagle
and her 25) seamen are not lost.
AT the Windsor Hotel. New Y orls. on
the 9th, Sir William Owen LanvOn, K {.
NJ, G. c. t.. died of cancer of the jaw.
Deceased was forty four years old, was
born in Ireland. and had served in wars
of England with distinction. In the see
ond Soudan cam paign he contracted the
disease of which ne died. He had spent
the winter in Nassau and Florida, ana
reached New York March 81.
THE Chesapeake Nail Works at Harris
burg Pa. employing about 2O men. and
the Lochiel and the Paxton furnace have
ceased operations until the railroad ana
transportation comp In les reach some con-
clusion regarding freight rates. The mill
owners say they can not continue busl-
ness under the Interstate act as inter
preted now. Several hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
SPEAKER PEEL of the British House OF
Commons has resigned and has per-
manently retired from public life
A SNOW STORM. which ended on the oh,
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, left ii
deposit on the ground thirty-four inches
in depth. The railroads in that section
were blockaded
WASHING ION pm SIttdHS dlC III hhS
throes Of professional etiquette convul-
sions on account OF DR.. Sewers recent
publication concerning the Presidents
health
JUDGE MAYNARD relinduished the office
Of Second Comptroller Oh the 9th, and for
mally entered upon the discharge of his
new duties as assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
TIE Swiss Government has resolved to
act vigorously against the Socialists and
Anarchists, whose recent activity is
thought TO be calculated to disturb the
peace of the state.
The Inter- State Commerce Commission
has made an order suspending, under GER
tain conditions, for three months the
fourth section of the Interstate Com
merce law dong and short haul sectionl,
so far as it applies to certain Southern
corporations specified in the order.
THE Pope is about to issue letter sane
tioning the principle Of the creation of d
Catholic university at Baltimore. The
Pope persists that DR.. McGlvnn must
go to Roma